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A Service for Advent with Carols, live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Introit: Advent Calendar (Ledger)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: David Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: There is no rose (Preston)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï
First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-5
Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Warlock)
Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv. 1-11
Carol: Cedit, Hyems (Abbie Betinis)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Carol: Drop down, ye heavens, from above (Judith Weir)
Third lesson: Micah 4 vv. 1-4
Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner)
Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv. 14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Christopher Robinson)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Carol: One star, at last (Maxwell Davies)
Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv. 1-7
Carol: Lo! the desert depths are stirr’d (Cheryl Frances-Hoad)
Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv. 1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New)

IV The God-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Carol: A tender shoot (Goldschmidt)
Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv. 39-49
Carol: A spotless rose (Howells)
Magnificat: Chichester Service (Walton)
Eighth lesson: John 3 vv. 1-8
Sentence and The Christmas Collect
Carol: Nova! Nova! (Iain Farrington)
Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)

The College Prayer and The Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ BWV 661 (Bach)

Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
George Herbert (Assistant Organist)
Anna Ryan (Flute)
Oliver Wass (Harp)